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<blockquote data-quote="Uller" data-source="post: 6719092" data-attributes="member: 413"><p>[ooc]</p><p>Let's start with your questions. Actually...let's start with a minor clarification. If anyone would like to ask questions before posting, feel free. Use the OOC thread or PM me if it's something you want to keep just to your character. </p><p></p><p>So onto your questions:</p><p></p><p>Stool...or Drum...can communicate telepathically. But only with certain creatures. You're not yet sure how this works. It has to "like you" first...When it becomes emotional it has trouble with words and images and emotions start coming through and it gets disturbing.</p><p></p><p>A quaggoth is a large beastial humanoid that lives in the underdark. Stupid, bipedal and viscious. If they stand up straight they probably reach 8' or so and weigh about 400-600 lbs. The drow are able to subdue them into a sort of symbiotic relationship. The other quaggoth's don't like Derendil because he doesn't know how to behave like one. The only time he does is when he becomes angry and then he loses all control. </p><p></p><p>None of the current prisoners know how long they stay. The longest any have been here has been about a week so far and no one has left yet.</p><p>[/ooc]</p><p></p><p>Jorlan starts when Surana makes an insulting comment about Asha. He turns back to her "What did you say?" Surana repeats her insult. Jorlan's face is a complete blank. She has no idea whether she upset him, amused him, angered him...</p><p></p><p>Later that 'night,' when Surana mentions to Stool that she used to play the drums, it starts to say something about music and family, but it doesn't seem to have the words for it. It moves closer to let her pat him. As she starts rapping out a rhythm, Drum starts to shuffle and sort of dance. Images of strangely lit cavern vistas and bountiful fungus gardens start to flood into Surana's mind. A whole city of mushrooms invades her consciousness. She walks its streets and sees its sights. To her surprise, Drum starts to 'hoot' in time to her drumming...almost like it's singing! Feelings of great joy start to ripple through her mind and in her waking dreams she begins to walk the paths of the underdark, paths that lead from this myconid city.</p><p></p><p>But then...it starts to turn. The paths become confused. A feeling of being lost overwhelms her. Longing for home, missed family, sense of security lost. Then images of hooked armed monstrosities leaping out of darkness. Rending, tearing, crushing, horror! Surana's mind reels...</p><p></p><p>[ooc]</p><p>You made a DC 10 CHA save...so you just pass out...probably a good thing</p><p>[/ooc]</p><p></p><p>When Surana comes to, Drum and Derendil are over her. "You're okay. You're all right," Derendil says. "You might want to...here...for the drool...a little running down your face. That's it." </p><p></p><p>"Drum sorry. Drum miss home. Drum have gift." Surana notices something drop out of Drum's body...a dark shard of stone. "Fire shard! Sharp shard! Stab wicked elves." She picks it up...it's a shard of flint. About the size of a dagger and just as sharp. As Surana looks it over and comtemplates where Drum got it, how did it hide it and why it suddenly gave it to her, the gate to the pen opens. </p><p></p><p>"Drop those three to the spiders! They'll never make it. Bring the rest in here." More prisoners are being brought in...</p><p></p><p>[ooc]I'll post the next turn tomorrow for Zansy and Ranger20[/ooc]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Uller, post: 6719092, member: 413"] [ooc] Let's start with your questions. Actually...let's start with a minor clarification. If anyone would like to ask questions before posting, feel free. Use the OOC thread or PM me if it's something you want to keep just to your character. So onto your questions: Stool...or Drum...can communicate telepathically. But only with certain creatures. You're not yet sure how this works. It has to "like you" first...When it becomes emotional it has trouble with words and images and emotions start coming through and it gets disturbing. A quaggoth is a large beastial humanoid that lives in the underdark. Stupid, bipedal and viscious. If they stand up straight they probably reach 8' or so and weigh about 400-600 lbs. The drow are able to subdue them into a sort of symbiotic relationship. The other quaggoth's don't like Derendil because he doesn't know how to behave like one. The only time he does is when he becomes angry and then he loses all control. None of the current prisoners know how long they stay. The longest any have been here has been about a week so far and no one has left yet. [/ooc] Jorlan starts when Surana makes an insulting comment about Asha. He turns back to her "What did you say?" Surana repeats her insult. Jorlan's face is a complete blank. She has no idea whether she upset him, amused him, angered him... Later that 'night,' when Surana mentions to Stool that she used to play the drums, it starts to say something about music and family, but it doesn't seem to have the words for it. It moves closer to let her pat him. As she starts rapping out a rhythm, Drum starts to shuffle and sort of dance. Images of strangely lit cavern vistas and bountiful fungus gardens start to flood into Surana's mind. A whole city of mushrooms invades her consciousness. She walks its streets and sees its sights. To her surprise, Drum starts to 'hoot' in time to her drumming...almost like it's singing! Feelings of great joy start to ripple through her mind and in her waking dreams she begins to walk the paths of the underdark, paths that lead from this myconid city. But then...it starts to turn. The paths become confused. A feeling of being lost overwhelms her. Longing for home, missed family, sense of security lost. Then images of hooked armed monstrosities leaping out of darkness. Rending, tearing, crushing, horror! Surana's mind reels... [ooc] You made a DC 10 CHA save...so you just pass out...probably a good thing [/ooc] When Surana comes to, Drum and Derendil are over her. "You're okay. You're all right," Derendil says. "You might want to...here...for the drool...a little running down your face. That's it." "Drum sorry. Drum miss home. Drum have gift." Surana notices something drop out of Drum's body...a dark shard of stone. "Fire shard! Sharp shard! Stab wicked elves." She picks it up...it's a shard of flint. About the size of a dagger and just as sharp. As Surana looks it over and comtemplates where Drum got it, how did it hide it and why it suddenly gave it to her, the gate to the pen opens. "Drop those three to the spiders! They'll never make it. Bring the rest in here." More prisoners are being brought in... [ooc]I'll post the next turn tomorrow for Zansy and Ranger20[/ooc] [/QUOTE]
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